amsterdamblog

Amsterdam Catwalk RAAK

2008-09-02T04:52:00.000-07:00

AMSTERDAM - Modehuis Jos van Raak toonde gisteren de wintercollectie 2008 in de Westerkerk in Amsterdam. Daarnaast wordt de Raak-lijn, in het teken van de glamoureuze jaren dertig, geshowd door onder meer Froukje de Bot.

Amsterdam 9straatjesROOD

2008-09-01T18:14:00.001-07:00

Vanaf 1 september t/m 1o september vindt van het kunstproject 9straatjesROOD plaats. Het kunstproject is een initiatief van telecombedrijf Vodafone, dat vanaf die datum officieel een kantoor heeft in de hoofdstad.
De bekende negen straatjesin de Amsterdamse grachtengordel worden gedurende anderhalve week op verschillende manieren ‘rood gekleurd’. Een jury koos hiervoor uit 120 inzendingen negen ontwerpen, bedacht door 11 kunstenaars. Bedenker en uitvoerder van het project is The Garage Creations.

Amsterdam Hartjesdagen

2008-08-19T13:44:00.001-07:00

Amsterdam demonstration for human rights in China

2008-08-10T15:27:00.001-07:00

Young Uyghur demonstrators during a protest march in Amsterdam for human rights in China, Friday 8 August 2008. The demonstration started at the same time as the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Amsterdam Fashion Week

2008-07-29T14:32:00.000-07:00

,,Catwalk In The Park,,

Couture presentation ‘Adieu Jeunesse' by

Michael Barnaart van Bergen at the Vondelpark.

more info www.michaelbarnaartvanbergen.com/

Amsterdam Fashion Week

2008-07-23T14:46:00.000-07:00

Heineken Serving Design&Fashion

Fashion Catwalk show by
Daryl van Wouw,Shoe,Hotel and Anne Tholen

more info www.aifw.nl/ and www.heinekenthecity.nl/

Amsterdam Mediamathic

2008-07-19T12:52:00.000-07:00

Andrea Crews opening performance

Mediamatic dresses itself in rags .

Mediamatic sounds the alarm on the drop in subsidies for

e-culture with a new exhibition called ikikik! (me me me!)

We will be supported by the activist and fashion collective

Andrea Crews from Paris. Andrea Crews is a group of

artists/ activists / fashion designers who are specialized

in the spontaneous design of cheerful clothing from rags.

With your help they will transform a meters high pile of

second hand clothing into fashion items.

more info www.mediamatic.net/

Amsterdam Graffiti

2008-07-05T14:34:00.001-07:00

Graffiti Wall Stedelijk Museum

www.stedelijk.nl/

Amsterdam Nid & Sancy

2008-06-27T14:38:00.000-07:00

LIVE ELECTRO PERFORMANCE NID & SANCY

Amsterdam Ellen ten Damme

2008-06-17T04:05:00.001-07:00

Vondelpark Openluchtheater

Ellen ten Damme was playing in the vondelpark last sunday

http://www.ellentendamme.nl/ http://www.openluchttheater.nl/

Amsterdam Streetart

2008-05-22T13:07:00.000-07:00

Amsterdam Amsterdammertjes

2008-05-18T14:35:00.000-07:00

Burgemeester Job Cohen heeft zaterdag een expositie van

vijftig bewerkte Amsterdammertjes geopend. De expositie

is een initiatief van de ondernemersvereniging van het

Spiegelkwartier. De vereniging had kunstenaars opgeroepen

om hun eigen interpretatie te geven aan de wereldberoemde

paaltjes. Door herprofilering van stoepen en straten

verdwijnen er steeds meer uit het straatbeeld.

Ook burgemeester Cohen maakte zijn eigen creatie op een

Amsterdammertje. Zijn kunstwerk en de vijftig anderen

worden zondag geveild. De opbrengst gaat naar een goed doel

Happy Birthday Buddha

2008-05-18T14:33:00.001-07:00

Amsterdam Hipop

2008-05-17T14:09:00.000-07:00

Studio Apart, Prinsengracht 715, Amsterdam presents

HIPOP

Very Urban Works by Rah Crawford

Visual Artist Rah Crawford returns to Amsterdam with

a street-savy art exhibition that imports urban culture

from The States directly into Holland.

Crawford's new paintings boast serious hipster appeal with its

sprayed surfaces, crypted text and dynamic blasts

of color and energy. HIPOP exposes

the hip-ness in American Popular culture - for all that its worth.

for more info go to http://www.rahcrawford.com/

Amsterdam Unlikely

2008-05-16T15:16:00.000-07:00

W139 presents Unlikely

The murals and paintings in this exhibition have been placed in

a relationship to each other so as to underline their connections

and commonalities. It s not so much about the individual positions

of the artists, but about an all-embracing feast for the senses.

colour interacts with colour; harmonious and discordant

relationships spring up. There is rhythm, measure,

tonality and materiality; loci, boundaries and transitions.

The game is a kind of animism. It is a domain within which

different factors come to life and interact.

Everyone knows that the game only exists for those who play it.

There are no compelling reasons to paint or to look at painting.

Artists and art lovers are people who take seriously those

things that others simply overlook. That is freedom.

for more info go to www.w139.nl

Amsterdam Queensday

2008-05-01T06:06:00.001-07:00

Amsterdam Drag Queensday

2008-05-01T05:54:00.000-07:00

Amsterdam Laser 3.14 & Jimmy Rage

2008-04-06T13:54:00.000-07:00

The ABC Treehouse Gallery Presents:

Hunger & Work in a Savage Tribe

Ruminations in Dutch & English: Laser&Rage are artists

that deal explicitly and directly with subverting messages

real and unreal, seen and unseen. As Jimmy Rage writes

"giving tongues and telling lies..and clockwork alibis ..and

the ever present, Laser 3.14 contends scrawling on the walls

of the city: "how can peace be so violent".

Hunger and work in a savage tribe, empire of dust and bones

.. movement of day to night .. the growth of the industrial rubble..

of concrete jungles Jungian parables... essentially.. city as jungle.

info: http://www.treehouse.abc.nl/

http://www.laser314.com/

http://www.jimmyrage.tk/

Amsterdam Against Racism

2008-03-22T15:24:00.000-07:00

Demonstrators of all races and colours crowded Amsterdam's

central square Saturday, braving wind and sleet to show their

opposition to anti-immigration legislator Geert Wilders.
The protest, called "Netherlands Shows Its Colours,"

is primarily a reaction in advance to the short film Wilders

says he will release later this month criticizing the Qur'an,

the Islamic holy book, as a "fascist" book.

I'm very much against Geert Wilders and racism in general,

but I think it's really important to show not only Holland

but the rest of the world

that there's a lot of people who do not agree with his ideas.

FREEDOM FOR TIBET

2008-03-19T17:18:00.000-07:00

Zo'n honderd actievoerders zijn dinsdagavond op de Dam bij

elkaargekomen om hun steun te betuigen aan het Tibetaanse volk.

Zij protesteren tegen het optreden van de Chinese autoriteiten

tegen de demonstranten in Tibet en tegen de vermeende

onderdrukking van deTibetanen in het algemeen.

De International Campaign for Tibet Europe, de Tibet

Support GroepNederland en de Tibetaanse Gemeenschap

in Nederland organiseren de bijeenkomst.

De demonstranten hebben Tibetaanse vlaggen bij zich en

spandoeken met teksten als 'China onderdrukt Tibet'.

Veel van de actievoerders waren tibetanen die in nederland

wonen, met betraande ogen verwerkten ze hun verdriet .

Amsterdam Foam

2008-03-15T15:07:00.000-07:00

From 14 March 2008 Foam presents STASI – Secret Rooms

by the German artist duo Daniel & Geo Fuchs. The exhibition

opens up the hidden rooms once used by the STASI,

the infamous East German secret service, in a series of

monumental photos. While much of the formerDDR infrastructure

has been destroyed, or given an entirely new function,

the clandestine spaces that Daniel and Geo Fuchs photographed

are still in their original condition. Offices, cell complexes,

bunkers, living quarters and interrogation rooms:

everything is exactly the way it was before 'Die Wende'.

The typical East European interiors, with their functional

furniture and sober colours seem remarkably stylised

in retrospect. Yet above all, what this large, intriguing

project shows is the symbiosis of architecture,

power and impotence, more info http://www.foam.nl/

Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum CS

2008-02-23T13:52:00.000-08:00

-Tobias Rehberger –
The chicken-and-egg-no-problem wall-painting
22 February until 25 May 2008Stedelijk Museum CS

The chicken-and-egg-no-problem wall-painting is the new

installation that Tobias Rehberger (1966, Esslingen, Germany)

realizes especially for the Stedelijk Museum. The artist

creates this seventy metres long work, using a selection of more

than forty of his sculptures, environments and video

pieces produced over the last fifteen years. In situ,

he will add a light plan and mural paintings
The title of the exhibition, is a reference by Rehberger to his

production method, which involves the creation of new

installations out of previous installations. The artist keeps on

asking himself: Which came first: the chicken or the egg?

And where do art works come from and where do they lead?

The same question can be applied to this exhibition:

is it a retrospective exhibition of sculptural work?

Or do the individual objects simply form the raw material

for an entirely new work: a painting in light and shadow on a

gallery wall? info: http://www.stedelijkmuseum.nl/

Amsterdam It Ain't Necessarily So

2008-02-20T14:45:00.001-08:00

Arps&Co presenteerde in de Prinsenkelder, Dikker&Thijs Fenice,

Prinsengracht 444 vanavond een fototentoonstelling van de

Amerikaanse fotografe Elizabeth Kleinveld ,Rogi Wieg draagde

gedichten voor, de opening werdt verricht door Molly Ackerman.

The exhibition, 'It Ain't Necessarily So,' is a synthesis of Rogi Wieg's

poetry and Elizabeth Kleinveld's photography, which together

tell the story of the transformative effect of having to rebuild

anew. An artist's journey through the wake of Hurricane Katrina,

as she searched to find meaning in the seemingly meaninglessness

and move on. On the other side of the destruction, her quest to

breathe color and "joie de vivre" back into her life took root,

and so the series Bloemen was born. 'It Ain't Necessarily So'

means that it could have been different, but it wasn’t, because

the above described mechanism is as old as the world.

It is an endless varying rebirth.

info : http://elizabethkleinveld.com/

Amsterdam Scientology Church

2008-02-11T14:15:00.000-08:00

Masked men and women demonstrate in front of the

Amsterdam office of the Scientology Church,

10 February 2008. The demonstration is part of a worldwide

protest organized by a group called Anonymous

against the much disputed organization.

Demonstrators are masked for what they say out of fear

for possible action against them by the church

Amsterdam Streetart

2008-02-07T14:43:00.001-08:00